Light Meter by WBPhoto
52
Quality Score
Solid
Light Meter by WBPhoto
by William Blaschko
Low confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Light Meter by WBPhoto is an iOS app from William Blaschko in the Photo & Video category, currently rated 4.4★ across 41 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 52: Solid (established niche player). For a Photo & Video app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$2.8K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$2.4K – $8.7K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.2K – $20.1K
per month
INDIE tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
11 snapshots on record
Rating
4.4
Reviews
41 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$2.8K
Snapshots tracked
11
since May 2022
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~3.5y at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙ Photo & Video complexity ×1.55 | +$27K |
| ⚙ 6.2y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$37K |
Total estimate
$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$45K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $35K – $50K · 17× MRR multiple
💸
~0.4× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 6.2y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ Small user base (<1K ratings) | -8% |
Final multiple
17× MRR
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (SwiftUI)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 30 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Photo & Video |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native SwiftUI (post-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-09-07 · 20 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 20 days since last update | Active development |
| 👥 Small user base (41 ratings) + 6.2y old | +10% (solo-project pattern) |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$2.8K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: rating drift may slow acquisition
6 months
$2.3K – $5.5K
12 months
$2.4K – $8.7K
24 months
$2.2K – $20.1K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Pre-traction · 40/100INDIE TIERlimited signalRevenue Strength
3.4
Product Quality
3.5
Market Position
2.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
3.5
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.5
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $1K - $6K/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.39★ across 41 reviews — weak — significant quality concerns.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $49K-$88K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 5 of 5 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($6.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (41 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v5.3.2
• Add AR Rangefinder — measure subject distance for manual film cameras (LiDAR on iPhone Pro; ARKit on all others)
• Send rangefinder readings directly into the Depth of Field Calculator
• Add Multi-Point Spot Metering — long-press to pin and compare exposure readings… Full release notes →
• Send rangefinder readings directly into the Depth of Field Calculator
• Add Multi-Point Spot Metering — long-press to pin and compare exposure readings… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Light Meter by WBPhoto
- Developer
- William Blaschko
- Bundle ID
- com.willblaschko.ios.lightmeterv2.pro
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $2.8K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Photo & Video
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth42 ratings+4100% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (11 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $6.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter2 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline2 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
The essential light meter app for film and digital photography. Turn your phone into a precision spot meter trusted by 400,000+ photographers worldwide.
PRECISION EXPOSURE METERING
• Spot meter with tap-to-focus exposure points
• Multi-point spot metering — pin and compare dynamic range
• Zone System metering — assign zones (0–X) to readings
• Exposure preview for compensation and ND offsets
• Volume button to start/stop metering
• Calibrated against professional Gossen and Sekonic meters
ZONE PLACEMENT CALCULATOR
• Place readings on zones, see target exposure instantly… View full description on the official store →
PRECISION EXPOSURE METERING
• Spot meter with tap-to-focus exposure points
• Multi-point spot metering — pin and compare dynamic range
• Zone System metering — assign zones (0–X) to readings
• Exposure preview for compensation and ND offsets
• Volume button to start/stop metering
• Calibrated against professional Gossen and Sekonic meters
ZONE PLACEMENT CALCULATOR
• Place readings on zones, see target exposure instantly… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 30 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v5.3.2🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 EN📂 Photo & Video💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2020 (6y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
9 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-09
📦
Bundle ↓ 48MB → 32MB — likely major code refresh
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v5.2.1 → v5.3.2
2026-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.80 → 4.39 (dropped 0.41★)
2026-06
💲
Went paid — introduced $6.99 price point
2026-03
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.83 → 4.80 (improved 1.97★)
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.40 → 2.83 (improved 0.43★)
2023-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.50 (dropped 0.50★)
2022-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.39024★ | 41 | 4.39024★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.88889★ | 9 | 4.88889★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.75★ | 8 | 4.75★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.83333★ | 6 | 4.83333★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 0★ | 0 | — |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.375★ | 8 | 4.375★ this version |
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.66667★ | 3 | 3.66667★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 5★ | 1 | 5★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 2.5★ | 2 | 2.5★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
About this analysis
Why low confidence: only 41 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only) · revenue figure is directional only.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Light Meter by WBPhoto make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Light Meter by WBPhoto earns approximately $2.8K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Light Meter by WBPhoto profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $115K and monthly revenue $2.8K, Light Meter by WBPhoto looks slow ROI — payback period is around 3.5 years at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
What apps are like Light Meter by WBPhoto?▴
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What is Light Meter by WBPhoto built with?▴
Our heuristic places Light Meter by WBPhoto on the Native iOS (SwiftUI) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Light Meter by WBPhoto still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 20 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Light Meter by WBPhoto sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $45K (marketplace range $35K – $50K). Calculated as 17× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Light Meter by WBPhoto last updated?▴
Light Meter by WBPhoto last shipped a new version on 2026-09-07 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Light Meter by WBPhoto?▴
Light Meter by WBPhoto is published by William Blaschko on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Light Meter by WBPhoto's BU Score?▴
Light Meter by WBPhoto has a BU Score of 52/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.